Abstract: The counter steer detecting method includes the steps of detecting a steering angle by a steering angle sensor, detecting a lateral acceleration by a lateral acceleration sensor, and determining counter steer according to the steering angle detected by the steering angle sensor and the lateral acceleration detected by the lateral acceleration sensor on the basis of a counter steer determination area table indicating whether or not the counter steer is on in relation to the combination of steering angle and lateral acceleration.

Abstract: A drive force control method for a four-wheel drive vehicle having front wheels as main drive wheels always connected to a driving source, rear wheels as auxiliary drive wheels whose drive torque is adjustable, and a mechanism capable of adjusting a torque distribution ratio between the front wheels and the rear wheels so that the torque distribution ratio of the rear wheels to the front wheels is increased in turning and also capable of adjusting a torque distribution ratio between the right and left rear wheels in turning. The drive force control method includes the steps of detecting a vehicle speed, and gently decreasing the torque distribution ratio of a turning outer wheel to a turning inner wheel with an increase in the vehicle speed. When the transmission shift position is a low-speed position or a high-speed position or the vehicle is in reverse running, the torque distribution ratio of the turning outer wheel to the turning inner wheel is decreased.

Abstract: A control method for a four-wheel drive vehicle such that the control is changed in braking the vehicle, includes the steps of detecting an ON/OFF status of a braking operation, detecting an accelerator opening or throttle opening greater than or equal to a predetermined value and setting the status of the braking operation to be OFF, for purposes of the control method, when the detected acceleration opening or throttle opening is greater than or equal to the predetermined value simultaneously with a detection of the status of the braking operation to be ON.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a guide rail structure with which it is difficult to remove a slat from a guide rail using a bar or the like.

Abstract: In a microarray image analysis system, when one of a plurality of statuses is set for a spot of a microarray by the user, the status of a similar spot is automatically determined. In a microarray image, the user determines a status of a spot, the pixel value matrix of an image in a spot region is learned by a neural network, a vertically and horizontally symmetrical image and an image rotated about the center of the region are formed and are learned by the neural network, and the neural network formed by repeating these steps is used for automatically recognizing the status of an undecided spot.

Abstract: A laser cutting apparatus capable of properly cutting a workpiece having a large thickness with a laser beam. The laser cutting apparatus includes a gas laser oscillator; and an optical system including a collective lens and transmitting and collecting a laser beam generated in the gas laser oscillator to irradiate a workpiece with the laser beam. An index M2 for evaluating a beam quality of the laser beam emerging from the optical system, with which the workpiece is irradiated, is in a range of 2.8 to 4.

Abstract: A hydraulic power transmission is provided with a frictional engagement element as a lock-up clutch between a hydraulic power transmission chamber, housing a pump impeller and a turbine runner, and a servo oil chamber of the lock-up clutch. A lock-up oil passage that supplies lock-up hydraulic pressure to the servo oil chamber is connected to a hydraulic pressure supply circuit that is used in common with a circulation oil passage that supplies hydraulic pressure for circulation to the hydraulic power transmission chamber. An orifice is disposed in the circulation oil passage. It is thus possible to perform lock-up with different supply pressures. A common oil supply for the lock-up oil passage and the circulation oil passage is provided, for example, by disposing a converting circuit that adapts an oil passage connection to hydraulic transmissions with different types of lock-up clutches.

Abstract: New fiber lasers, spontaneous emission sources, and optical fiber amplifiers are provided. Their conventional counterparts, which have a fiber doped with thulium (Tm) ions and excited by 0.67 ?m or 0.8 ?m pumping light, have a problem in that their characteristics are deteriorated with the elapse of time. The new fiber lasers, spontaneous emission sources, and optical fiber amplifiers use 1.2 ?m light as pumping light. Alternatively, they use a pumping source for exciting the thulium from the lowest energy level 3H6 to 3H5 excitation level. As a more preferable configuration, they improve the emission efficiency at 2.3 ?m band by disclosing Tm-doped host glass.

Abstract: Provided is a grid-type high-speed clock signal distribution network capable of reducing a difference in amplitude of a standing wave on a transmission line and of supplying a signal from any position. The network for transmitting the clock signal is such that ends of the differential signal transmission line are connected via an inductor, a low-amplitude segment is eliminated by a phase shift in the inductor and a standing wave of substantially uniform phase and amplitude is produced, wherein the number of lines connected to the grid point is made the same for entire grid points.

Abstract: A network management apparatus interconnects a plurality of computers through physical lines having a predetermined line speed to manage a switch apparatus constructing a parallel computer system. The switch apparatus comprises a plurality of physical port units to enable or disable the same through individual power supply ON/OFF control for the physical port units, thereby changing and controlling the line transmission speed according to the enable number. A logical port constructing unit in the network management apparatus bundles the physical lines by a plurality of physical port units in the switch apparatus to construct logical lines. A port control unit changes the number of operations of a plurality of physical port units assigned to the logical port units through the power supply ON/OFF control according to a necessary data transmission speed for the logical port units, thereby dynamically changing the line transmission speed.

Abstract: An interconnection network is provided with switch devices for computers for a plurality of computers, respectively, a predetermined number of physical lines for switch devices for computers are bound to form each of logical lines, the physical lines forming the logical lines interconnect the other switch devices for computer via a plurality of switch devices for relay to form a parallel computer system. When a data transmission speed required between the computers is judged to be lower than a line transmission speed determined by the number of physical lines of any switch device for relay, switch setting-off unit turns off power of the whole switch device for relay that has been judged to shut off the switch device for relay from the interconnection network.

Abstract: A drive force control method for a four-wheel drive vehicle including a torque distributing mechanism capable of changing a drive force distribution ratio between front and rear wheels and a drive force distribution ratio between right and left front wheels or between right and left rear wheels. This method includes the steps of increasing the drive force distribution ratio of the rear wheels to the front wheels according to an increase in absolute value of a lateral G signal, and increasing the drive force distribution ratio of a turning outer wheel as one of the right and left front wheels or one of the right and left rear wheels to a turning inner wheel as the other. A lateral G sensor signal is corrected by an estimated lateral G signal calculated according to a steering angle and a vehicle speed to obtain a control lateral G signal, which is used as the lateral G signal.

Abstract: A laser apparatus (100) for performing the laser machining operation by condensing the laser light output from a laser oscillator (3) is disclosed. A laser output value calculation unit calculates a laser output value (L1) based on a command value (L0) issued to a laser oscillator (2). A temperature change estimating unit (31) estimates the temperature change or the temperature (Te) of specified component element(s) (7a, 7b) of the laser apparatus based on the elapsed time (t) and the laser output value calculated by the laser output value calculation unit. An adjusting unit (32) adjusts the conditions for controlling the laser or the conditions for laser machining based on the temperature change or the temperature of the specified component element estimated by the temperature change estimating unit. A stable laser machining operation is performed without a temperature sensor. The laser output value (L1) may be measured by a laser power sensor (5).

Abstract: In a blade of a blade server, power is supplied from a power distributing unit to an internal circuit, and also supplied to a capacitor to charge the capacitor. If power consumption of the blade server is high and a process load on a blade is also high, power is supplied to the internal circuit from both the power distributing unit and the capacitor. If the process load on the blade is low, power is supplied to the internal circuit only from the power distributing unit.

Abstract: A blower (10) includes: at least two or at least three acoustic sensors or vibration sensors (31a to 31c) attached to a casing (12); and a position specifying means (34) for specifying a position of a source of abnormal sound or abnormal vibration from signals detected by the acoustic sensors or vibration sensors. When the position of the abnormal portion is specified in this way, a proper countermeasure can be taken quickly. Further, the blower (10) preferably includes an alarm output judging means (35) for judging whether or not an alarm should be outputted according to the position of the source of the abnormal sound or abnormal vibration specified by the position specifying means. A laser oscillator (100) having the blower (10) is also provided.

Abstract: There is provided a current collector for use in a secondary battery on which active material coated on both sides of a metal foil are difficult to drop out. The metal foil is provided with a large number of penetrating holes, the periphery of which are formed into a complicated shape, and active material, binder, etc. are intruded on each periphery, whereby the active material, etc. coated on both sides of the current collector consisting of the metal foil are prevented from dropping out. An area S of penetrating holes is in the range of 0.05 to 0.50 mm2 a value M/N is in the range of 1.30 to 100 wherein M is the peripheral length of the penetrating holes and N is the peripheral length of a virtual circle having the area S of the penetrating hole. The current collector having such a large number of penetrating holes is obtained by passing a metal foil without a hole through between a concavo-convex roll having a large number of convex parts and a smoothing roll.

Abstract: A laser processing head comprises nozzle-holding means (5) for holding a nozzle in which a nozzle hole (11) is formed; condensing optical system-holding means (3) for holding a condensing optical system (2), the condensing optical system-holding means being slidably arranged in the nozzle-holding means while maintaining sealing, moving means (6) for slide-moving the nozzle-holding means and the condensing optical system-holding means relative to each other; gas-feeding means (13, 19) for feeding a gas into a laser processing head chamber. (8) formed between the condensing optical system of the condensing optical system-holding means and the nozzle hole of the nozzle-holding means; passages (31) formed in the nozzle-holding means to communicate the laser processing head chamber with the exterior of the nozzle-holding means; slide members (33) that slide in the passages while maintaining sealing; and coupling means (35) for coupling the slide members to the condensing optical system-holding means.

Abstract: The present invention has been made to provide a computer management program, a managed computer control program, a computer management apparatus, a managed computer, a computer management system, a computer management method, and a managed computer control method allowing the management agent to easily perform autonomous communication frequency control.

Abstract: A group of cells are newly clustered on the basis of the result of implementing a SOM. A plurality of pieces of multivariate data are clustered via a SOM, and cells are displayed on a two-dimensional plane as rectangular or hexagonal shapes. The level of similarity between representative vectors from each adjacent cell is calculated, and a dendrogram is three-dimensionally depicted. Cells on a SOM map are colored differently in accordance with a plane for partitioning the dendrogram.

Abstract: A gas laser oscillator (10) provided with voltage detecting means (4a to 4d) for detecting the voltage of each of a plurality of discharge tube segments (6a to 6d) of a discharge tube before start of discharge and a discharge tube segment start judging means (1) for judging if each of the plurality of discharge tube segments (6a to 6d) has started based on the voltage of the discharge tube segments (6a to 6d) detected by the voltage detecting means (4a to 4d), wherein the discharge tube segment start judging means (1) allows all of the plurality of discharge tube segments (6a to 6d) to start only when the voltages of all of the discharge tube segments (6a to 6d) of the plurality of discharge tube segments are smaller than a predetermined voltage (Vb) is provided. Due to this, it is possible to judge an abnormality in the laser gas before the start of discharge without any work on the part of the operator and thereby prevent the discharge tube from being damaged.